The Jewish community was not the only people under persecution by the Third Rich during the Second World War. “"The heaviest blow to humanity" he [Hitler] once said, "was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of Jews (Chao 7)."” Hitler wanted to extirpate the Catholic Church because he thought that Catholics and Jews were the source of every evil. Hitler wanted to create a national German Church that would be loyal to the Führer; the leader, Hitler himself. If this church had been created, then Hitler would have not had as much resistance and the ‘Final Solu

In September 1943, just after a few days into the German occupation of Italy, Hitler wanted to have Friedrich Otto Wolff, supreme commander of the SS in Italy, to occupy the Vatican and take Pope Pius XII and the Curia to Liechtenstein (Cornwell 313-314). Hitler wanted to take Pius XII under his control. What was he thinking?

The Vatican Radio was used to broadcast the events of the war to the world. Yes, the broadcasts never out right denounced the evil any party committed; nonetheless, it communicated the Vatican’s thoughts, ideas, stance, and beliefs about the events taking place.

Yes, it is true that the Christian and Jewish religions had been in conflict with each other numerous times in the past. From the being of Christianity, the Jewish Community has been under attack and always being persecuted. In the first few centuries, the Jewish people were used as the scapegoat for the Roman Empire and some people even accused them of killing Jesus. However, by the 20th century there had been a basic peace created between the two religions. In spite of any beliefs otherwise, Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church helped over 800,000 Jews escape death (Chao 8). Therefore, no one could or can prove that the Catholic religion supported the extermination of the Jewish Race.

“… handled over one and a quarter million requests and succeeded in locating over half a million of the displaced persons, mostly Jews, a success ratio of 44 percent, in spite of the non cooperation from the Nazis and little, if at all, cooperation from the Allies. The communication with prisoners of war was another of its important services (Chao 8).”

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